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Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 6: Vanity Fair Hollywood, Game Your Video, Tank Battalion Blitz, Order Up!! To Go (Appolicious)
Monday, February 6, 2012 7:37:00 AM CST
Appolicious - It’s almost time for this year’s Academy Awards, so get primed up for your Oscar ballot with Vanity Fair Hollywood, an app full of information about the nominees so you can make informed picks. After you’re done thinking about the best in Hollywood, you can make videos of your own with effects app Game your Video. In games, we’ve got Tank Battalion Blitz, a top-down tank battling game that includes offline and online multiplayer play. After that, there’s Order Up!! To Go, a time-management restaurant game that uses gesture controls for your cooking.
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Remix some classics with Art Jam Paintings iPhone app (Appolicious)
Monday, February 6, 2012 6:00:00 AM CST
Appolicious - Art Jam Paintings isn’t exactly a passive app, considering there is some level of user interaction that takes place with the paintings available, but those expecting a full-fledged art-based game ought to look elsewhere.
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Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant (ContributorNetwork)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:40:38 PM CST
ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
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Canalys: Smartphones outship PCs for first time in 2011. Or did they? (Appolicious)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:30:00 AM CST
Appolicious - Take a break from Android-iPhone wars for a moment and focus on another battle smartphones vs. PCs.
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WillCall and other iPhone apps are changing the ticket game (Appolicious)
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:00:00 AM CST
Appolicious - The other day, TechCrunch tipped us off to a hot new last-minute ticket-selling app called WillCall. The app currently lets users choose their purchases from a select list of concerts, but will soon expand to include tickets to plays and symphonies as well. WillCall is currently only available in San Francisco but will expand to Los Angeles and New York City in March.
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NFL Kicker! iPhone game gets you ready for the Super Bowl (Appolicious)
Saturday, February 4, 2012 3:00:00 PM CST
Appolicious - NFL Kicker! is the sort of game you download innocently enough looking to kill a few spare minutes; then, by the time you finally look up, you’ve spent half an hour devoted to kicking digital field goals. That’s far from a bad thing; rather it feels exciting to have a sports game on a mobile platform feel so immediate and gratifying.
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Micron CEO dies in plane crash, industry stunned (Reuters)
Friday, February 3, 2012 7:58:14 PM CST
Reuters - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.
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Apple, Motorola in patent struggle in Germany (AP)
Friday, February 3, 2012 5:28:56 PM CST
AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies.
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What If Tech Companies Were Countries? (ContributorNetwork)
Friday, February 3, 2012 12:58:30 PM CST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Tech companies across the United States have been releasing their Q1 2012 financial reports, or their summaries of how well they did in the last few months. Apple, with its mountains of cash and nearly-vertical iPad sales growth (as illustrated in this graph by Horace Dediu), continues to dominate most of the hardware markets that it participates in ... and to have outsized profits per smartphone sold, as illustrated in this graph by Benedict Evans.
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Apple to resume full online sales in Germany (Reuters)
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:50:50 AM CST
Reuters - Apple Inc said it was cleared to resume selling older models of its iPhone and 3G-based iPads via its German online store on Friday, after the suspension of an injunction won by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in December.
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Why No One Can Compete with Amazon (ContributorNetwork)
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:16:55 AM CST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Amazon.com is sort of like the Wal-Mart of the Internet. It doesn't just sell books anymore; nowadays, it sells everything from riding lawn mowers to bulk toilet paper. And its Kindle Fire tablet has become strong competition for Apple's iPad, selling (possibly) millions of units compared to hundreds of thousands for most of its Android competitors.
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Android OS rules in U.S., gets a Bouncer to keep malware out the Market (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 9:17:00 AM CST
Appolicious - The Android platform expanded its dominance in the U.S. smartphone market during Q4 of 2011, according to the latest ComScore report. Apple may have boosted its share of the mobile handset market with the release of the iPhone 4S, but Android’s still the clear winner in terms of OS use, powering 47.3 percent of surveyed subscribers. That’s up from 44.8 percent last year, growing by slightly more percentage points than Apple’s increase to 29.6 percent from 27.4 percent.
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Rumor has it Apple is planning ‘strange’ media event before iPad announcement (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 7:32:00 AM CST
Appolicious - Fresh off its iBooks 2 announcement and approaching the expected announcement of the iPad 3, a new rumor is suggesting Apple might have a new announcement coming soon – and it could be ”strange.”
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Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 3: Wunderkit, LeDainian Tomlinson, Blot, Gorilla Gondola (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 7:09:00 AM CST
Appolicious - Get the most productivity out of your weekend with today’s Fresh iPhone App, Wunderkit. It marries the standard productivity features like to-do lists with social media. It’s followed by the official app of LeDianian Tomlinson, filled with 16 workouts the NFL running back uses to get keep his speed and strength. Endless runner Blot leads the weekend’s game selections, bringing a great art style and challenging gameplay, along with Gorilla Gondola, a physics game that requires some different thinking from the standard fair.
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Sprint investors in purgatory until 2013 (Reuters)
Friday, February 3, 2012 6:41:20 AM CST
Reuters - Sprint Nextel , like its bigger rivals, is expected to report a steep decline in fourth-quarter profit margins due to its launch of the costly Apple Inc iPhone.
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective tops iPhone Games of the Week (Appolicious)
Friday, February 3, 2012 6:00:00 AM CST
Appolicious - The latest entry in Capcom’s stable of App Store games is also our best game of the week. It’s Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a game in which you play a ghost working to solve his own murder (and a bunch of puzzles along the way). Check out all the details below, and read about four other quality titles you should try this weekend.
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Steve Jobs brought back to life as an Android fan in Taiwanese ad (Yahoo! News)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:43:42 AM CST
Yahoo! News - In the months following long-time Apple CEO Steve Jobs's untimely death, we've seen him resurrected in many forms. He's already been brought back in plastic and bronze, but we never thought we'd see him reborn as an Android supporter. Leave it to a Taiwanese tablet …
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Angelic "Steve Jobs" loves Android in Taiwan TV ad (Reuters)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:43:09 AM CST
Reuters - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.
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More than 50 percent of Facebook’s monthly active users are on mobile apps (Appolicious)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:54:00 AM CST
Appolicious - We already knew Facebook’s various mobile apps were popular, be they on Apple’s iPhone or iPad, on devices running Google’s Android operating system, or even on BlackBerry devices and feature phones.
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Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 2: Spice Invaders, Ghost Trick, Awesome Land, Reckless Racing 2 (Appolicious)
Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:12:00 AM CST
Appolicious - It’s the week’s big day for games, and we’ve got quite a few great ones on offer today. Spice Invaders is a robust tower defense title with tons of content and an eight-player multiplayer mode, while Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective puts players in the role of a ghost trying to solve his own murder by manipulating objects. Awesome Land is a side-scrolling platformer that puts a leather jacket and an attitude on Mario, while Reckless Racing 2 brings some quality top-down racing action to the App Store.